I had this very excellent book when I was little. My siblings and I read it and played with it all the time. I believe there was a second one that employed the same colorful overlay idea as well, but I can't remember what it might have been called. Anyway....I was extremely excited when I found that we had this one in our school library.We are continuing to explore the concept of color mixing and the magic of using primary colors to make all of the other colors.The kindergartners are also learning about butterflies in their classroom.They had fun using the liquid watercolors and clean white palettes to experiment.

We started with the same three colors that Herbie - in the story - had available to him and we were able to create TONS more.